DAY Today in History cover for 30 October 1938, featuring Orson Welles at a CBS microphone, a female news presenter, a vintage radio, dramatic newspaper headlines and fictional Martian war machines from The War of the Worlds broadcast.
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War of the Worlds 1938: The Radio Panic | DAY History

2026-10-30

On October 30, 1938, a radio drama titled “The War of the Worlds,” simulating news broadcasts in the United States, led some listeners to mistakenly believe that Martians had invaded Earth. What truth lay hidden behind this panic?

Five-panel historical comic introducing the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, showing an American family listening to the wireless, 23-year-old Orson Welles at CBS, H. G. Wells's novel and the DAY news presenter explaining the drama's realistic news format. Five-panel comic depicting the fictional Martian invasion reported during the 1938 War of the Worlds radio drama, including emergency bulletins, a mysterious cylinder in New Jersey, alien heat-rays, concerned listeners and a presenter clarifying that the invasion never happened. Five-panel historical comic exploring public reactions to the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, with telephone enquiries, sensational newspaper reports, Orson Welles facing journalists and modern research questioning whether the nationwide panic was exaggerated.

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